The present Yearbook (which is the sixth in the series) is subtitled Economy, Demography, Culture, and Cosmic Civilizations. To some extent it reveals the extraordinary potential of scientific research....

Containing many practical examples for researchers and engineers, this book examines the development of the asymptotic theory for the class of switching queuing models that covers state-dependent models in a Markov or semi-Markov environment, models under the influence of flows of external or internal perturbations, and unreliable and hierarchic ne...